Discuss Ingrid Goes West

Loved this, really refreshing and original (although I wish Mark Duplass had been cast somewhere - its his usual mix of profundity and whimsy). That said, I struggled with the message of the film. It felt like it wanted to be a satire of this generation's obsession with social media and the superficiality of wanting to be 'liked' and 'followed' by strangers (juxtaposed against how weird it is when those strangers actually show up in person to like and follow for real...) but the ending kind of pulls that apart, and her resolution, that she had real friends who genuinely cared about her (like Dan) is undermined by the reveal that she's now a viral internet sensation with a ton of instafans, and after all, she seems more happy about that. Maybe that's the point, that the addiction is all consuming and inescapable, but it felt like the film had set itself up for this realisation that she didn't need the fake digital veneer, and instead could be herself for real, and then it just totally gave up on that ending and continued the obsession instead. Not sure how I feel about that!

Great film though, Aubrey Plaza and O'Shea Jackson Jr both amazing in it.

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